The Cumming Attraction: Backstage at Macbeth with Alan Cumming, Episode 3: The Underpants Giveaway!
From Broadway.com:
We always knew Broadway.com video blogger Alan Cumming was “kind of a rock star!” The "Scottish play" headliner chats with Chris Noth (kinda), gets his first Macbeth injury, has a fabulous fashion show and gives away undies.
Armistead Maupin audio book series features Alan Cumming
Tony Award winners Alan Cumming, Frances McDormand and Cynthia Nixon
are among the actors who read the work of "Tales of the City" novelist
Armistead Maupin in a new audio book series from Harper Collins.
Maupin, best known for his San Francisco-set series "Tales of the
City," is celebrated in the new six-part audio book series from
HarperAudio, which was released March 26. Each of the works is presented
in unabridged form.
"Tales of the City" and "Further Tales of the City" are read by Good People Tony Award winner McDormand; "More Tales of the City" and "Significant Others" are read by Wit and Rabbit Hole star Nixon; Cumming (Macbeth, Cabaret) reads "Babycakes"; and Emmy Award-winning "Will & Grace" and The Best Man star Eric McCormack reads "Sure of You."
Read more (and listen to an excerpt) at Playbill
Bone Quill Audiobook release date announced
AudioGO have announced that the AudioBook for Bone Quill, read by John Barroman, will be available on Monday, 18 February.
Bone Quill - first signing events announced
Buster Books has confirmed the following signing events for Bone Quill:
Waterstones, 38 Avenue Centre, Newton Mearns, Glasgow G77 6EY
Tuesday 26 February 2013 at 3.45pm
Waterstones, 128 Princes Street, Edinburgh EH2 4AD
Wednesday 27 February 2013 at 11.45am (likely time limit of one hour)
Waterstones, Bluewater West, The Village, Greenhithe, Kent DA9 9SE
Saturday 2 March 2013 at 2.30pm
Waterstones, 2A The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1WB
Monday 4 March 2013 at 4.00pm
The usual rules will apply, so that John and Carole have time to see
everyone. There can be no signing of merchandise and no posing for
photos
(although you may of course take photos as books are being signed).
Everyone will need
to have a copy of Bone Quill (though John and Carole will sign their
other books if you have those in addition to Bone Quill)
More signing dates and venues to come, as Buster Books announces.
Audiobooks David Tennant has started his work in 2013 by recording audiobooks as he has been in the studio reading both How To Steal A Dragon's Sword and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time.
On Thursday afternoon Soundhouse Studios tweeted that David Tennant had completed recording the new Chitty Chitty Bang Bang audiobook Chitty Chitty Bang Bang And The Race Against Time.
More information here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Virgin Media Collection David Tennant can currently be seen on television and online in a number of adverts for the Virgin Media Collection.
He appears alongside Sir Richard Branson, Usain Bolt and some look-alikes.
There are also some clips online on the Virgin Media website.
The Virgin Media website has a new David Tennantvideo with at least four different endings! Keep on the page to see the first ending and then replay the video to watch them all.
More information here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Spies Of Warsaw
A synopsis of episode one of Spies Of Warsaw (starring David Tennant) and cast list can be found here.
A worldwide link to download episode one of Spies Of Warsaw can be found here.
The BBC Shop has the coverwork for the Spies Of Warsaw DVD (see below) which is released on 21st January.
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists movie (known as The Pirates! Band Of Misfits in the US) has been nominated for the Best Animated Feature Award in this year's Oscars.
David Tennant voices the young Charles Darwin in the movie.
More information here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Believe It! Believe It! has been shortlisted for the Best Scripted Comedy Award in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013. (That page includes a new photo of David Tennant from when he hosted the 2012 Award ceremony.) In the 2012 awards David Tennant won the Best Actor Award for his role in Kafka The Musical which was first broadcast in April 2011 and somehow that drama is on the shortlist for the Tinniswood Radio Drama Award 2012 for Best Radio Drama Script.
More information here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Much Ado About Nothing
Digital Theatre have launched a new iPad app where you can watch David Tennant and Catherine Tate's production of Much Ado About Nothing.
More information here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Doctor Who
The Radio Times have reported that Big Finish will be releasing a 100-minute-long audio story The Light At The End to celebrate the Doctor Who 50th anniversary. Former Doctors Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann are already confirmed and Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith are "behind the project" which will be released in November.
More information here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Diary dates Tues
15 Jan - Complete Series of Twenty Twelve is released in US and Canada.
Tues
15 Jan - Satellite station Watch start a new run of repeats of David Tennant's
episodes of Doctor Who.
Wed
16 Jan - Episode two of Spies Of Warsaw premières on BBC Four at 9pm.
Sat
19 Jan - David Tennant attends the Project Motor Mouth Charity Convention.
Sat 19 Jan - Two of David Tennant's episodes of Doctor Who (Blink
and Midnight) are featured in the Cine Lumière Doctor Who Night in London.
Source of all David Tennant news: David Tennant on Twitter (the most frequently updated David Tennant site on the net). You can follow them on Facebook and Twitter, too.
Thanks to the
latest “Not a Blog” update from G R R Martin, we’ve learned that Game of Thrones actor
Ron Donachie — last seen playing Ser Rodrik Cassel—will be attending Chicon 7,
the 70th Worldcon, as a representative of the show for HBO.
Donachie also
happens to be the audio book reader for the new audiobook of Fevre
Dream — Martin’s award-winning horror novel set on the Mississippi in the
Antebellum—which Martin announced back in June.
This is the first week of filming on David Tennant's eight part gritty police
drama Broadchurch for ITV. So far there
have been very few sightings of filming by fans but it is known that they were
filming in the Fishponds area of Bristol on Tuesday and Wednesday and Will
Mellor started filming his scenes on Wednesday (15th). On Monday
somebody posted onto Tumblr that David was filming at her friend's dad's
workplace but no further details were given. Yesterday
somebody on set tweeted "Today I have been opening and closing a mortuary
door and walking past David Tennant. As you do. #averageday" Somebody
else tweeted "Yesterday David Tennant literally frowned in my general
direction - highlight of my year." Last night
producer Richard Stokes tweeted that it had been "a fast first week." Next week
there will be some filming in a school so hopefully more tweets will be posted. Source: David Tennant on Twitter (blog)
AbsoluteRadio - Christian O’Connell’s Breakfast Show
David
Tennant recited the words of Spandau Ballet's Gold on Absolute Radio last Monday
(13 Aug) From Absolute Radio:
Friend of the show and thespian extraordinaire David Tennant gave us his VERY
SPECIAL spoken-word version of 'Gold' for today's Spandathon
The BBC Media Centre has posted that the remaining un-broadcast episodes of
Tree Fu Tom will start being broadcast on CBeebies from 5.25pm each day
starting on Monday 3rd September. We noticed that the link only lists from
episode 18 but the producer of the series kindly informed us via Direct Message
that episode 14 onwards will be shown. David Tennant voices the character
Twiggs. Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger
A large new promo photo of David Tennant from Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger has been released; you can see it here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
David
Tennant filmed the movie Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger from October until
early December 2011. He plays two roles in the movie as he plays identical twins! The movie
also stars Marc Wootton, Joanna Page and Pam Ferris and is directed by Debbie
Isitt. It's working
title was Nativity 2: The Second Coming and will be released in the UK on
Friday 23rd November 2012. Trailers are
already being shown in cinemas.
More info at David Tennant on Twitter
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists!
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! movie was released on DVD and
blu-ray in Germany on Thursday, under the title 'Die Piraten - Ein Haufen
merkwürdiger Typen.' Source: David Tennant on Twitter (blog)
A special short DVD called So You Want To Be A Pirate is being sold by Tesco
for only £5. It features David Tennant's voice as the young Charles Darwin. Source:David Tennant on Twitter
Audiobooks update
On 14 August, the David Tennant read My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece audiobook was due to
be released in the US on CD, but Amazon still has it on pre-order.
The David Tennant read Doctor Who audiobook The Feast Of The Damned was due for
release in the US but has been delayed until 28th August. Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Doctor Who
David Tennant is shown in a clip on the CultBoxTV website from BBC America's programme called The Women
Of Doctor Who which was broadcast last weekend. Source: David Tennant on Twitter
John Barrowman joins cast of Arrow John Barrowman has joined the cast of Arrow.
The Torchwood star will take on a leading role in the CW's new show about superheroes, which will concentrate on the exploits of billionaire Oliver Queen - aka 'The Green Arrow' - who fights crime with his archery skills.
According to Entertainment Weekly, John will play a ''well-dressed man who is as mysterious as he is wealthy ... he is an acquaintance of the queen family and a prominent figure in Starling City''.
His character has not been named and insiders claim the 45-year-old star could be set to take on the role of deranged Stanley Dover, who is obsessed with black magic.
John's casting comes after he shot the pilot for another US TV series, Gilded Lilys - which is being billed as America's answer to Downton Abbey.
He plays Julius Ashford Lily in in the period drama, which has been commissioned by ABC.
It tells the story of the first luxury hotel built in New York in 1895 and John's character is described as the ''favourite son and golden boy'' of the Lily family, whose financial and social fortunes are undermined by a scandal.
Gwyneth Paltrow's actress mother Blythe Danner has also been cast in the show, as has 'Mildred Pierce' actor Brian O'Byrne. Source: STV Originally reported by Entertainment Weekly Also reported by Reality TV World and BBC America and many many others!
TV, radio, and public appearances
Attack of the Show John will be a guest host on Attack of the Show in the week of 3 Sept. Read more at Futon Critic
Gotta Sing Gotta Dance BBC Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night presents a tribute to Gene Kelly - Gotta Sing Gotta Dance! at 8:00 pm on Friday 28th September.
Starring John Barrowman with the sixty piece BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Broadway maestro Larry Blank, the concert also stars Scarlett Strallen (currently starring in Singin' in the Rain a the Palace Theatre) and big band vocalist Matt Ford who performs regularly with the BBC Big Band, Halle, Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, RTE Concert Orchestra and the John Wilson Orchestra performing at the BBC Proms in Hooray For Hollywood..
The concert features classic numbers including: Singin in the Rain; You Were Meant For Me; Almost Like Being in Love; I Could Write A Book; Make 'Em Laugh; Get Happy; For Me and My Gal; I Got Rhythm; Good Morning and Broadway Melody. Source: Musical Theatre News
John Barrowman to visit Waterstones in Glasgow On September 14 at 6pm, Torchwood and musical star John Barrowman and his sister, Carole E Barrowman, will make a return visit, after an extremely popular event earlier this year.
They’ve co-written a new book, Torchwood: Exodus Code, which they’ll be signing copies of – the follow-up to Hollow Earth which is already available in the UK.
Again, staff expect the event to be popular – so the advice is to arrive early. Read more at STV
John’s forthcoming appearances are listed and regularly updated on his official site
Torchwood audiobook
Torchwood: The Exodus Code audiobook Regulars will already know about Torchwood: The Exodus Code novel by John Barrowman and his sister Carole – but did you know that there is also an audiobook version from AudioGO?
Scheduled for release on 13th September, Torchwood: The Exodus Code currently has no reader confirmed (Eve Myles or John Barrowman would seem most likely for a big original title like this), so we can only assume that they’re busily recording and putting the results through post-production right now! You can get your copy of the 7 CD audiobook – lasting around 9 hours – for an RRP of £15.99, or head to Amazon where the story can be pre-ordered for just £13.68. Read more at Kasterborous
One of the comments states
It will be read by Daniel Pirrie, it has been confirmed by Audiogo here:
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Interview with George R R Martin
John Barrowman interviews ‘Game of Thrones’ author George R.R. Martin Fandoms collide: Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin spoke to Torchwood star John Barrowman at Comic-Con, and the video interview is online now!
The interview was done at Comic-Con and released a few weeks ago, but Martin thought it was noteworthy enough to write about recently on his blog to share it with his fans.
In the video, Martin talks about his first Comic-Con and his favourite comics, and they discuss being fans while being unable to walk around the convention without being mobbed. They also go over some of the things we’ve heard before, like how Martin was originally inspired by turtles and why Tyrion is his favourite character.
On season 3, Martin won’t give anything away but does warn book fans that there are changes coming: “I kill a lot of characters, [the showrunners] kill even more.” Well, that’s just terrifying, right guys?!
The interview was done with G4.
Tomorrow (Mon 13 August) Absolute Radio DJ Christian O'Connell will play a recording of David Tennant reciting the words of
Spandau Ballet's 1983 hit Gold during his breakfast show. Source: David Tennant on Twitter (blog)
DVD and Audiobook releases
Tues 14 Aug
- My Sister Lives On The Mantlepiece audiobook released in the US.
Tues 14 Aug
- An abridged version of the Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned audiobook
released in the US.
The release of the DVD of Shakespeare Uncovered (the DVD is currently called
Prefaces To Shakespeare) has been postponed in the UK and Europe, according to
Amazon, from 27th August to 29th October. The release has been delayed in the US
until 5th November.
Amazon are
listing The Spies Of Warsaw DVD available to pre-order for the UK and Europe
with the release date of 29th October. However the BBC Shop have it for £1
cheaper with the release date of 24th September. Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Broadchurch
David Tennant will start filming Broadchurch in Somerset and the Bristol area tomorrow (Monday 13th August 2012). The read-through for at least the first block of
filming was on Tuesday 7th August. Broadchurch will be broadcast on ITV during early
2013. More
information on Broadchurch can be found here
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
The Spies of Warsaw
Some new photos of David Tennant from The Spies Of Warsaw (which contain minor
spoilers) have been posted onto Tumblr - view them here
A Polish industry website has posted more photos of filming The Spies Of
Warsaw. Find out more at David Tennant on Twitter (blog)
Doctor Who
Due to his reactions on Attack Of The Show last week, Blastr.com believe that David
Tennant will be involved in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary next year. (David
did not confirm or deny anything although previously his stock answer has
always been that he had not been asked yet.) Source: David Tennant on Twitter
Billy Boydis the narrator in the new book – The Legend
of Mordekai Hagg – due for release in July 2012 as a hardback, paperback and
interactive iPad App and audio download.
Every book
and app sold will raise funds for ClicSargent for Children with Cancer
On Wednesday
1st August, David Tennant appeared at the at Television Critics Association
Summer Tour in Beverley Hills to help promote The Spies Of Warsaw. Although the
BBC America panel was only 15 minutes in length it gave about a hundred
television journalists the chance to talk to David and the writers and to watch
a clip of the drama which wil start being broadcast in the US in November.
Some
journalists also interviewed David later too. More details
about David Tennant at the Television Critics Association can be found here.
Source:David Tennant on Twitter
Attack Of The Show
On Thursday
2nd August, an interview with David Tennant was broadcast on the programme
Attack On The Show in the US and Canada. Attack Of
The Show is geared towards the male viewers as the description on the G4TV
website says "Welcome to TV's only source for all the stuff you care about
from the coolest viral videos to the hottest new gadgets, comics and movies.
Attack of the Show gets it before it gets out." Attack Of
The Show was broadcast at 7pm ET on G4 in America (repeated at 2am) and at the
same time on G4 TechTV in Canada. It was also shown in Australia on the channel
Fuel at 4.30pm the following day. Click here
to watch a video of the full interview.
More
information on David Tennant on Attack On The Show can be found here. Source:David Tennant on Twitter
David
Tennant Talks Spies Of Warsaw & Doctor Who
David
Tennant joins Matt Mira in studio to share the latest on his upcoming
miniseries, The Spies of Warsaw, on BBC America and what life is like as the
most popular Doctor Who.
David
Tennant will start filming Broadchurch in Somerset and the Bristol area on
Monday 13th August 2012 and it will be broadcast on ITV during early 2012. Inspired by
the series The Killing, David's 8 part series is written by Chris Chibnall,
directed by James Strong and produced by Richard Stokes for Kudos Productions. David
Tennant will play a gritty detective who investgates crimes which other
policeman have been unable to solve. More
information can be found here. Source:David Tennant on Twitter Town to become star of ITV drama
A new ITV drama starring David Tennant will be filmed in Clevedon from this
month with shops, houses and a church to be used as integral locations
throughout. Kudos Film
and Television will produce the eight-part drama, entitled Broadchurch, which
will centre around a murder investigation in a fictitious Dorset town of the
same name. Hill Road
will be used to represent Broadchurch High Street, where a number of exterior
scenes will be shot. The former
Seeley’s Newsagent in Hill Road will be adapted, both inside and out, to turn
it into the offices of local newspaper, The Broadchurch Echo. The film company
is also in talks to use another property in Hill Road as a key location. A number of
scenes will also be shot in the West End area of the town, around Marshall’s
Field and Clevedon Pill. Two private houses in St Andrews Drive and Lavington
Close will be used to represent the homes of some of the characters and St
Andrew’s Church will represent the Broadchurch parish church. Filming is
due to begin on August 13 and will run until the end of November, mostly in
North Somerset. Some scenes will also be shot in West Dorset. David
Tennant, a star of film, theatre and TV, will be joined by Olivia Coleman, star
of Peep Show and Twenty Twelve, in the lead roles as the police officers
heading up the murder investigation. They will be joined by BAFTA-winning
actress Vicky McClure.
The story will explore what happens to a small community when it suddenly
becomes the focus of a major event and is subjected to the full glare of the
media spotlight. Writer Chris
Chibnall said: “Broadchurch focuses on a small British community which finds
itself at the eye of a storm. In the wake of one boy’s death, the residents of
Broadchurch come under scrutiny and suspicion.” All eight
episodes, to be screened in 2013, will be filmed in order, meaning cast and
crew will return to Clevedon a number of times over the coming months. The team
will set up a base in the Salthouse Fields car park when filming in Clevedon,
consisting of trailers for costume and make-up, a mobile kitchen, toilets and a
mobile dining facility. When filming
in Hill Road, vehicles carrying technical equipment will be parked in The
Regent car park. Source: The Weston Mercury
The
Politician’s Husband
David
Tennant has just completed filming The Politician's Husband in and around
London. David
attended the read-through and a photo shoot on Saturday 9th June and started
filming on Monday 11th June 2012. The final day of filming was Wednesday 25th
July. The drama
will air as a series of three one hour programmes during early 2013 on BBC Two. The
Politician's Husband is a drama exploring what happens in a political marriage
when the wife becomes more successful than her husband.Emily Watson
will play his wife and Ed Stoppard is also in the drama which was written by
Paula Milne. More
information can be found here. Source:David Tennant on Twitter
Twenty Twelve DVD
On Monday 6 August, the second series of the David Tennant narrated Twenty Twelve will be released on DVD in
the UK and Europe. For £2 more you can buy both Series One and Series Two
together.Source:David Tennant on Twitter
On Her Majesty's Secret Service audiobook
The audiobook
(on both download and CD) of On Her Majesty's Secret Service is available to
pre-order via the AudioGo website. David Tennant reads On Her Majesty's Secret
Service and the audio CD also features a bonus interview with David. Source: David Tennant on Twitter (blog)
AudioGo have a competition to win a David
Tennant signed copy of the hardback book of On Her Majesty's Secret Service if
you pre-order the CD or download from them.
The CD version of David Tennant reading On Her Majesty's Secret Service is
£4.01 cheaper (at £10.99) if you purchase it via the BBC Shop. It is available for pre-order and will
be released on 6th September.
Source: David Tennant on Twitter
